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puff /puf/ intransitive verb- To blow in whiffs
- To breathe out vehemently or pantingly
- To snort scornfully (obsolete)
- To emit puffs
- To issue in puffs
- To make the sound of a puff
- To go with puffs
- To swell up (esp with up)
transitive verb- To drive with a puff
- To blow
- To emit in puffs
- To play (eg a wind instrument) or smoke (eg a pipe) with puffs
- To inflate or swell (esp with up)
- To elate unduly
- To extol, esp in disingenuous advertisement
- To put out of breath
noun- A sudden, forcible breath, blast or emission
- A gust or whiff
- A cloud or quantity of vapour, dust, air, etc, emitted at one time
- An inhalation of tobacco smoke
- A sound of puffing
- A downy pad for powdering (eg one's face)
- Anything light and porous, or swollen and light
- A biscuit or cake of puff pastry or the like
- A part of a fabric gathered up so as to be left full in the middle (needlework)
- A quilted bedcover
- Ostentation
- Praise intended as, or serving as, advertisement
- A homosexual (slang; see poof1)
ORIGIN: OE pyffan, or a related form; cf Ger puffen, etc puffed adjective - Distended
- Inflated
- (of eg a sleeve) gathered up into rounded ridges
- Out of breath
puffˈer noun - Someone who puffs
- A steam-engine
- A steamboat, esp in Scotland a small cargo-carrying boat used in coastal waters
- Someone employed to bid at an auction to incite others and so run up prices
- A wheel-lock pistol
- A puffer fish
puffˈery noun - Advertisement disguised as honest praise
- Puffs collectively
puffˈily adverb puffˈiness noun puffˈing noun puffˈingly adverb puffˈy adjective - Puffed out with air or any soft matter
- Swollen, engorged
- Bombastic
- Coming in puffs
- Puffing
- Short-winded
puff adder noun A thick, venomous African snake (Bitis arietans or related species) that distends its body when irritated puffˈball noun - A gasteromycete fungus (Lycoperdon, etc) with ball-shaped fructification filled when ripe with a powdery mass of spores
- A tight-waisted full skirt gathered in at the hem to an underskirt, so as to be shaped like a ball
- Any similar short or long ball-shaped skirt
puffˈbird noun Any bird of a Central and S American family related to the barbets, with the habit of puffing out the head-feathers puffˈ-box noun A box for powder for the face or body and a puff puffer fish noun A globefish puff pastry or US puff paste noun Pastry composed of thin flaky layers puffˈ-puff noun (esp formerly) a child's word for a railway engine or train puffed out - Quite out of breath
- Inflated, distended, expanded
puffed up - Swollen
- Inflated with pride, presumption, or the like
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